I heard this story on the week-end and the story-teller swore that it was true. Some years ago he was working in the kitchen of a restaurant up north at a popular coastal retreat. It was late at night with only 2 couples left in the dining room. A few of the kitchen staff went out back for a "smoke". While out there a cane toad happened to jump towards them and one of the guys caught it. He asked the others whether they had seen a cane toad smoke. None of them had so he put a fag in the corner of its mouth and it actually started slowly puffing away! He explained that there was some sort of automatic response that caused the toads to do this.
After they had recovered from rolling around laughing at the hilarious sight, the guy holding the toad told the others to catch a couple more. These were also given a fag. He then motioned them to bring the toads around to the front of the restaurant and release them near the front window. They all then ran back into the kitchen and peered out into the dining room at the 2 couples sitting near the window. Apparently as the toads hopped into view with the fags hanging from the corners of their mouths, one after the other, the diners put their cutlery down, stopped chewing and just stared out the window without a word exchanged. They couldn't believe what they were seeing and just froze at the sight of 3 smoking toads casually hopping past the window. Needless to say the guys in the kitchen almost split their sides laughing!
After they had recovered from rolling around laughing at the hilarious sight, the guy holding the toad told the others to catch a couple more. These were also given a fag. He then motioned them to bring the toads around to the front of the restaurant and release them near the front window. They all then ran back into the kitchen and peered out into the dining room at the 2 couples sitting near the window. Apparently as the toads hopped into view with the fags hanging from the corners of their mouths, one after the other, the diners put their cutlery down, stopped chewing and just stared out the window without a word exchanged. They couldn't believe what they were seeing and just froze at the sight of 3 smoking toads casually hopping past the window. Needless to say the guys in the kitchen almost split their sides laughing!

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